Nokia reborn: Nokia’s new Android launcher is wonderfully simple and shockingly innov

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http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/DtZrDsY4jKg.2AoezY8bVg--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9NzU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_US/News/BGR_News/nokia-z-launcher-2.jpg (http://news.yahoo.com/nokia-reborn-nokia-android-launcher-wonderfully-simple-shockingly-150005083.html)It seems positively bizarre to type, especially since I have been covering the company for nearly a decade now, but Nokia is no longer a cell phone-maker. Once the largest-phone vendor on the planet by a staggering margin, Nokia sold its devices and services business to Microsoft and will now wear a number of new-hats as it looks toward the future. One of those hats, as it turns out, is that of an Android developer — and the company’s first big software announcement is a shockingly impressive one. Nokia on Thursday took the wraps off of Z Launcher, a truly novel home screen replacement for Android phones. Android launchers often get lost in trying to differentiate. They also sometimes-attempt to



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